Your Reasons?

[Via Cassian]

Other: for the traditional monastic and ascetic reasons. LOL, yes I think I am the only one who listed this reason.

 

[FredVB]

There are certainly other reasons some can list, that are good reasons still to be vegan. Yet I have the good perspective that there is no good enough reason to not go vegan. That there is the better, and healthiest, way to eat possible that would be with just vegan food, that dependence on use of animals that has them bred more, kept in captivity, leading to their slaughter, that with so much grown for feeding them leaves more people starving to death when it could be reversed, that harmfulness to natural environments, use of more resources, water and land, and resulting in more pollution from animal waste, and contribution to greenhouse gases that cause climate change, could all be reversed with people going vegan, does not leave what people say for not being vegan to be really good reasons.

 

[FredVB]

There are certainly other reasons some can list, that are good reasons still to be vegan. Yet I have the good perspective that there is no good enough reason to not go vegan. That there is the better, and healthiest, way to eat possible that would be with just vegan food, that dependence on use of animals that has them bred more, kept in captivity, leading to their slaughter, that with so much grown for feeding them leaves more people starving to death when it could be reversed, that harmfulness to natural environments, use of more resources, water and land, and resulting in more pollution from animal waste, and contribution to greenhouse gases that cause climate change, could all be reversed with people going vegan, does not leave what people say for not being vegan to be really good reasons.

Most of the mammals of wildlife in the world are gone, and those of wildlife still around, besides birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects, are going fast, with animal agriculture the main cause of this, with a critical issue to our world from this unless we really change a lot right away.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/humans-destroyed-83-of-wildlife-report/

With the sustainability issues we need to address avoiding anything using animals and growing what is needed for food from vegetation is necessary.

When I speak of healthier ways with vegan eating that certainly does not include the unhealthy vegan ways, which I recognize there are, I specifically speak for it being better avoiding animal products and processed foods. This healthy way is known to doctors and I have sites known that back that up, and there is plenty of information for it. I would not say much for it if there was not the healthy way, finding it was revolutionary for me.

www.forksoverknives.com

 

[FireDragon76]

I eat a plant-based diet mainly for environmental and health reasons. A vegan diet is simply more sustainable and has a lighter footprint on the earth. I'm also the only member of my immediate family that isn't obese. My cholesterol is also low.

 

[Somber]

I have been plant-based/vegan for over 4 years now. At first my greatest motivation was for health, but now it is for all the reasons.